How much of a golf career the majors pay for

• Tour purses 66.6%
• The four majors 9.4%
• Bonus pools 10.5%
• LIV Golf 13.5%

The bonus slice is the FedEx Cup and what came before it, money the tour pays for a season rather than for a tournament. It is bigger than the majors, which is why bonus money has a page of its own.

For twenty-five seasons the line barely moves: major purses rose in step with everything else, so the four held roughly a ninth of the sport year after year. Then it falls.

2019-20 is the outlier and it is a calendar rather than a trend. That season lost the Open entirely and had the Masters pushed out of it, so 3.3% of its money came from the majors against 19.6% in 1996-97, the highest reading on the chart.

A high share is not the same as a lot of money. Haotong Li is top of this chart on 60.2% of a career worth $3,589,610, while Rory McIlroy has won more from the four than anybody at $33,751,609 and sits on 15.6%.

Scott Vincent is the clearest version of the argument: a career worth $15,207,105 with 0.0% of it from the majors. Nobody outside golf could name the weeks that paid for it, and that is true of most of the money in the sport.

Yes, and mildly. The $100m and up band takes 12.3% of its money from the four against 9.9% in the under $3m band.